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Kansas, H. R. Bryson (April 20): Adults abundant on volunteer potatoes 
and on planted potatoes that are coming through the ground. 
CORN WIREWORM ( Melanotus communis Gyll.) 
Florida. A. N. Tissot (April 25): Considerable damage to potatoes in Dade 
County. 
TOMATO FRUITWORM ( Hcliothis armigera Hbn.) 
Texas. C, 0. Gingrass (April 21): Approximately 50 percent of the early to- 
matoes in Hidalgo County are damaged, 
POTATO APHID ( Macro sip hum - solanifolii Ashm.) 
Ohio. G. V. Johnson (April 14): Alate and apterous adults and nymph's are 
attacking potatoes in storage at Columbus. (Det. by P. W. Mason.) 
BEANS - 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna varivestis Muls.) 
Virginia. L. W. Brannon (April 24): First beetle collected on beans in the 
field today at Norfolk. This is 6 days later than first emergence in 
1941 > but about average for the last severs, 1 years. Emergence apparently 
had just begun, as only one beetle was found on one row of beans 200 feet 
long . 
Florida. F. S. Chamberlin (April 23): Adults are becoming abundant in bean- 
fields in Gadsden County. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 21): Abundant at Auburn. 
BEAN LEAF BEETLE ( Cerotoma trifurcata Forst.) 
Virginia. L. W. Brannon (April 18): First adult collected in field at Nor- 
folk today, feeding on young beans. Same date as first emergence in 1941 
and about average emergence date for this locality. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (April 23): Beetles observed on April 22 attacking 
first beans. 
Alabama. <?• M. Robinson (April 21): Beetles have been abundant at Auburn. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle, et al. (April 24): Reported oh beans in Hinds, Holmes, 
and Oktibbeha Counties. 
PEAS 
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ONION THRIPS ( Thrips t abaci Lind.) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (April 25): A 7-acre field of peas at Sanford has been 
ruined. 
CABBAGE 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Georgia. R. W. Harned (April 12): Cabbage aphids apparently less numerous 
and troublesome than last season on seedling plantings in southern Georgia. 
